Beauchamp Tower
Beauchamp Tower | |
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| Born | 13 January 1845 Hydrodynamic lubrication |
Beauchamp Tower (13 January 1845 – 31 December 1904) was an
hydrodynamic lubrication.[1]
Early life
Beauchamp Tower was born the son of Robert Beauchamp Tower, rector of Moreton, Essex and educated at
Elswick, where he stayed for a few months as a draughtsman after completing his four-year apprenticeship
.
Inventions
Beauchamp Tower held several patents regarding an apparatus for maintaining a constant plane in a floating vessel.[2][3] The apparatus is based on the gyroscopic principle. One of the possible applications of this patent was steadying guns on shipboard.[4] In 1977, he was named by Duncan Dowson as one of the 23 "Men of Tribology".[5][6]
Influence
Tower's work on lubrication influenced many other engineers, including
Lord Kelvin credited Tower with the idea of a chain and pulleys as part of his Tide-predicting machine.[8]
References
- ^ "Illustrations and description of Tower's spherical steam engine". Tower. Archived from the original on 5 October 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
- ^ "Beauchamp tower".
- ^ "Tower".
- ^ "Apparatus for steadying guns on shipboard".
- ISSN 0022-2305.
- ISSN 0022-2305.
- JSTOR 109480. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ Casselman, Bill. "Fourier Analysis of Ocean Tides III". AMS American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 4 December 2021.